The Trade Compliance Blueprint Miniseries –

Get origin wrong, and every entry inherits the error.

Country of origin is not a checkbox on a customs entry, it is the foundation everything else stands on. It sets your duty rate. It decides whether you qualify for preferential FTA treatment. And when CBSA comes knocking, it’s the position you either defend with documentation or pay for with reassessments, penalties, and clawed-back savings reaching back years.

The only constant is change and there has been a plethora of regulatory changes in the last 24 months. Most importers are still relying on determinations made under rules that no longer apply.

In 30 focused minutes, Dominion Customs Solutions kicks off The Trade Compliance Blueprint — a four-part miniseries on building a customs compliance program that holds up under scrutiny. Part I tackles the foundation: ORIGIN.

What you will walk away with:

• The three tests that decide origin — substantial transformation, tariff-shift rules, and FTA origin criteria, and how they are part of a larger whole
• A governance framework that survives an audit — clear roles, real controls, audit trails, and defensibility
• A worked example, start to finish — from bill of materials to a documented position that still holds up years later
• The real cost of getting it wrong — reassessments, penalties, lost FTA savings — against the upside: Dominion has recovered $600M+ in duty refunds for clients
• Live Q&A with our trade compliance leadership

VIEW ON-DEMAND: The Trade Compliance Blueprint Part I – Origin